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A fine, cool and windy day spent mainly inside with Daniel reorganising our rooms, moving furniture and generally tidying up until a water leak requires the builder’s presence after which I relax more, having got quite tired. The Glenholmes fiasco continues and there seems hope for British Leyland as The general Motors deal breaks down, but Thatcher is in trouble for share dealings in an Aussie mining company and the NGA secretary was arrested in the demo last night
A fair lay in and tea in bed in comfort, as the heating had been on for some time. Down to start cooking my own breakfast, which I did with some skill and then enjoyed my fried egg, bacon, tomato, bread, sausage and then to the Observer for a while, but not much coverage of the Budget that had not been seen elsewhere. Showered, shaved and dressed and then, with Daniel, a start on the house furnishing. We first set up the nursery with the single bed from Debbie’s room, with a new pine headboard. Also the cot and other accouterments. The small bed across to Debbie’s room, that allowed her bedside cabinet to be put back in position. Then to Daniel’s room, where we take his older single bed away, move the model railway cabinet across to the box room, and then bring in and set up the oak double bedstead.
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A better day for our heating and for us spent at home for much of the time until a short shopping trip to St Neots, meeting David & Moira Biggins in the process, before Daniel and I sort out a few rooms at The Hayling View. This as The US resumes nuclear tests and Prince Charles breaks his finger but Murdoch has to face 8,000 pickets that block his Wapping Plant
Slow to wake again and Di brought up my tea to me in bed. The heating had come on again, as the pilot light stays on with the timers off. In view of our movements these last few days, I persuaded Di to stay at home this morning and, whilst she tidied up the kitchen and started cleaning out the new parts of the building, I stayed in the lounge and looked after the girls, whilst I read a backlog of newspapers. Quite a trying time as it always seems that sisters try to play together nicely, but invariably find it difficult to get on. No workers today, which was a pleasant relief. I took Debbie out to tend the ducks and doves – 9 eggs and the doves still incubating, and we enjoyed it, but found the cold wind quite daunting. This wind got up a lot later today and ended up quite a gale.
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A better bright and breezy day for our heating and then the decorator, tiler and pool contractors resume work as we make a day trip to Bedford and struggle but the Escort Estate suffers suspension trouble and we need a breakdown vehicle to get home as my Mum and Dad visit and play with their grandchildren . This as Reagan fails to get Congress to approve aid for the Contra guerrillas fighting the Sandinista government
Woke to find that the pilot light had stayed on and the heating had worked this morning for the first time in a long while. Of course it went out after two hours of use. No time to read the morning paper before being called downstairs to a breakfast, missing both milk and fruit juice. Di had forgotten to buy them or order more from the milkman. The decorator, tiler and four pool men arrived before we left for Bedford and so I discussed their work plans for the day. The tiler finished even more and only has a couple of accessories to add. The decorator finished the wallpapering of hall, landing and stairs and only has a little more internal painting to do. The pool men used a delivery of waterproof cement and a vibrating poker to tamp down a filling between the block walls, demolished our old path and laid foundations for the pool retaining wall. Meanwhile, we went shopping in Bedford, parked in the multi-storey and, after coffee, went our separate ways, before rendezvousing in Debenhams for lunch.
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A busy time preparing the children for school and managing the ducks and doves on a wild and changeable day before the gas fitters make a mess of repairing the central heating as a bombs explodes in two locations in Paris with 29 dead and wild winds in the West Country capsize a trawler with six fishermen dead
Slept well and woke to my morning tea on a chilly morning. High winds from the south west made the bedroom most uncomfortable. Down to breakfast of toast and fruit juice and then a fight to make Daniel and Debbie get ready for school, without fighting with each other. Di had arranged many commitments for today. Shopping, Deb’s disco, and then taking Daniel to the doctors. Poor Dan has had a chronic sinus infection and we only find this out now – previously assuming it was catarrh. Good news really, as a course of antibiotics should clear it up and give him an improved way of life. I spent much of this morning reading the mail, clearing up my tools, and progressing a few matters.